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::: center home >> events >> conferences >> 2016-17 >> pluralism

Scientific Knowledge Under Pluralism

31 March - 1 April 2017
Center for Philosophy of Science
817 Cathedral of Learning
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA USA

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PROGRAM

DAY ONE, Friday March 31.

8:30

Breakfast

9:00

Welcome & Introduction: Anjan Chakravartty (Notre Dame)

 

Session 1 Chair: Kareem Khalifa (Middlebury)

9:30

Matthew J. Brown (U. of Texas at Dallas)
“Pluralism, Realism, and Values in Scientific Metaphysics”

10:10

David Glick (Oxford)
“Pluralist Structural Realism”

10:50

Coffee Break

 

Session 2 Chair: Mazviita Chirimuuta (Pittsburgh HPS)

11:20

Nina Atanasova (U. of Toledo)
“Convergent Perspectivism: A Model of Integration in Neuroscience”

12:00

Louise Daoust (U. of Pennsylvania)
“Pluralism, Realism and Color Science”

12:40

Lunch (On Your Own)

 

Session 3 Chair: Catherine Kendig (Michigan State U.)

2:10

Matthew Baxendale (Central European U.)
“Resisting the Reductionist Retreat: Towards a Pluralism of Research Strategies”

2:50

P.D. Magnus (U. at Albany, SUNY)
“Does pluralism about natural kinds have to be superficial and anti-realist? (Spoiler: No)”

3:30

Coffee Break

 

Session 4 Chair: Haixin Dang (Pittsburgh HPS)

4:00

Samuel Cusimano (U. of Michigan) & Beckett Sterner (Arizona State U.)
“Integrated Pluralism for Biological Function”

4:40

Justin Donhauser & Jamie Shaw (Rotman Institute of Philosophy)
“What Theoretical Ecology Reveals about Knowledge Transfer”

5:20

Stretch

 

Session 5 Chair: Yann Benetreau-Dupin (Center for Philosophy of Science)

5:30

Keynote I: Michela Massimi (U. of Edinburgh)
"What is Perspectival Pluralism?"

 

DAY TWO, Saturday April 1

9:00

Breakfast

 

Session 1 Chair: Agnes Bolinska (U. of Wisconsin, Stevens Point)

9:30

David Stump (U. of San Francisco)
“Fallibilism and the epistemic argument for pluralism”

10:10

Collin Rice (Bryn Mawr)
“Universality and Multiple Conflicting Models”

10:50

Coffee Break

 

Session 2 Chair: Porter Williams (Pittsburgh HPS)

11:20

Stuart Glennan (Butler U.)
“Pluralism without tears: mechanistic ontology and the pluralistic character of scientific knowledge”

12:00

Luis H. Favela (U. of Central Florida)
“Pluralistic Explanatory Practices for an Ontologically Pluralistic World”

12:40

Lunch (On Your Own)

 

Session 3 Chair: Alison Fernandes (Center for Philosophy of Science)

2:20

Justin Humphreys (U. Pittsburgh)
“Local Indeterminacy”

3:00

Eric Hochstein (Washington U., St. Louis)
“Why Scientific Pluralism Requires an Ontological Monism”

3:40

Coffee Break

 

Session 4 Chair: Anjan Chakravartty (Notre Dame)

4:10

Georgie Statham (Van Leer Jerusalem Institute)
“Interventionism and Scientific Pluralism”

4:50

Stretch

5:00

Keynote II: Sandra Mitchell (Pittsburgh HPS)
"Pluralist Metaphysics: Stability, Contingency and Reliability"

6:00

Adjourn

 

 

SPONSOR:
The Center for Philosophy of Science

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
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